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Tubing & Hose Buying Tips
#6: Taste & Odor Transfer Issues

It can be challenging to make sure you’ve covered all the bases during the tubing and hose selection process. Have you considered all the elements involved with the application? Temperatures, chemicals, pressures, flexibility needs? In Tubing & Hose Buying Tips we’ll address common selection factors, one at a time, in each issue of extrusions.

If your application involves items such as foods, beverages, dairy products, laboratory fluids, or medicines, any taste or odor transferred to those products could be critical.

Some tubing and hose materials contain plasticizers (chemical agents) to facilitate processing and help the finished tubing or hose become flexible. Under certain circumstances these additives can leach out from the tubing or hose.
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Material Focus
Fluoropolymer

Fluoropolymers are some of the most versatile engineering materials known and, since their discovery over 70 years ago, have been used in nearly every field of modern industry, technology, and science. Their non-stick properties became commonly recognized by the consuming public when E. I. DuPont began marketing his “Teflon®” brand product for use on cookware, as a fiber treatment for stain resistance, and in other household applications.
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Tech Talk
Plastic Material Acronyms

ABS Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene

CAB Cellulose Acetate Butyrate

CAP Cellulose Acetate Propionate

CPVC Chlorinated Polyvinyl Chloride

EPDM Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer

EVA Ethylene Vinyl Acetate

FEP Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene

FRP Fiber Reinforced Plastic

HDPE High Density Polyethylene

IR Isoprene Rubber

LDPE Low Density Polyethylene

LLDPE Linear Low Density Polyethylene

MDPE Medium Density Polyethylene

PE Polyethylene

PFA Perfluoroalkoxy

PP Polypropylene

PTFE Polytetrafluoroethylene

PU Polyurethane

PVC Polyvinyl Chloride

PVDF Polyvinylidene Fluoride

SBR Styrene Butadiene Rubber

TPE Thermoplastic Elastomer

TPR Thermoplastic Rubber

UHMWPE Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene

For more terms common to the tubing and hose industry, be sure to visit the Glossary on our Web site.

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• Tubing & Hose Buying Tips
  #7: Clarity
• Material Focus
  Polyethylene
• Tech Talk
  Custom Product FAQs

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Tubing & Hose Buying Tips
#6: Taste & Odor Transfer

Material Focus
Fluoropolymer

Tech Talk
Plastic Material Acronyms

On the Light Side
A Touch of Humor

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